November 9–14, 2008, San Diego, CA

LISA '08 offers in-depth training by experts such as Mark Burgess on Cfengine and David N. Blank-Edelman on Over the Edge System Administration. NEW! LISA includes training tracks on Solaris and Virtualization taught by industry leaders such as James Mauro and Richard McDougall.

The comprehensive 3-day technical program includes a keynote address by Sean Dennehy of the CIA on Intellipedia; 18 refereed papers; and invited talks including plenaries by Bruce Schneier and David Wagner.

Don't miss out on opportunities for in-person discussion on topics that mean the most to you. Check out the full program and register today!

Register online by October 17 and save!

OSDI '08: 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
December 8–10, 2008, San Diego, CA

OSDI '08 brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The program includes papers on cloud computing, OS architecture, monitoring, concurrency issues, and more. Interested in presenting new work? Submit a Work-in-Progress report or poster. Registration is now open and the full program is available.

Register online by November 17 and save!

Diversity '08: Workshop on Supporting Diversity in Systems Research
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA

The first Workshop on Supporting Diversity in Systems Research is a community-building event, serving both to educate women and under-represented minorities about the opportunities in systems research and to support researchers who are already working in the field. The workshop will include a range of panel sessions and presentations by leading researchers from academia and industrial labs. Find out more and register today.

Attention students: Grants are also available for the workshop.

Register online by December 1, 2008, noon PDT.

HotDep '08: Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA

Join us for the fourth HotDep, a workshop that brings forth cutting-edge research ideas spanning the domains of fault tolerance/reliability and systems. HotDep will center on critical components of the infrastructures touching our everyday lives: operating systems, networking, security, wide-area and enterprise-scale distributed systems, mobile computing, compilers, and language design. Check out the full program and register today!

Register online by December 1, 2008, noon PDT.

CC '08: USENIX Education on the Road 2008
October 16, 2008, Chapel Hill, NC
October 21, 2008, Blacksburg, VA
October 22, 2008, College Park, MD

Join us for the next installments of USENIX Education on the Road. Jacob Farmer of Cambridge Computer Services will bring you the tutorial "Next Generation Storage Networking" in Chapel Hill, NC; Blacksburg, VA; and College Park, MD. Registration is free. Find out more here.

For USENIX members, the full October issue of ;login: is now online.

Among the articles free to everyone: "Solaris Virtualization Options," by Wenjin Hu, Todd Deshane, and Jeanna Matthews; "Benchmarking Amazon EC2 for High-Performance Scientific Computing," by Edward Walker; editor Rik Farrow's "Musings"; book reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky, Brad Knowles, Sam Stover, and Rik Farrow; and conference reports from the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference and more.

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Please take a few minutes to read Nick Stoughton's Update on Standards from the October 2008 issue of ;login: and give him your opinion on the project.

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Just Up! New Proceedings: USENIX Security '08, HotSec '08, EVT '08, WOOT '08, and CSET '08

The online proceedings of the following recent events are now available:

• 17th USENIX Security Symposium

• 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '08)

• 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08)

• 2nd USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '08)

• Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '08)

March 30–31, 2009, Berkeley, CA

Submissions due: October 17, 2008  Deadline Approaching!

TaPP '09: 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (CFP)
February 23, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Submissions due: December 5, 2008

USENIX '09: 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (CFP)
June 14–19, 2009, San Diego, CA

Submissions due: January 9, 2009

HotOS XII: 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (CFP)
May 18–20, 2009, Monte Verità, Switzerland

Submissions due: January 13, 2009

LEET '09: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (CFP)
April 21, 2009, Boston, MA

Submissions due: January 16, 2009

USENIX Security '09: 18th USENIX Security Symposium (CFP)
August 10–14, 2009, Montreal, Canada

Submissions due: February 4, 2009